- When you're ready to output your project,…it's a good idea to tidy up the compositions,…make them as simple as possible.…I do things, like I hide the Mode column,…and then I precompose elements to simplify the compositions.…Now, that can cause problems sometimes.…If you've used a lot of expressions,…if we select these graphics I want to precompose,…double-hit the E key,…you'll see there are loads of expressions in there…that are controlling the elements.…Now, I've used Copy, Property Links to do that,…so many of them name this composition specifically.…

Others don't, others that I've created just by…pick whipping, for example, would say just "this comp."…So if I precompose, I can run into problems.…Let me show you what I mean.…If I hit Command Shift C, or Control Shift C on Windows,…to bring up the precompose box,…and just type in GFX and click OK,…now that's made our composition nice and simple,…but as you can see, we have four errors here.…It's quite easy, it tells us what the errors are…and where we can fix them,…

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10/14/2015

Mograph designers and artists are always looking for new templates—and they're often willing to pay for them. Building template-based projects in After Effects is also a great way to earn extra income while improving your design skills. In this course, you'll create a working project template in After Effects and prepare it for sale. You'll learn how to build the project from flexible shape layers and text layers, adding some effects along the way. You'll also find out how to set up the project to make it easy for other designers to make changes to the color, text, and animation, and customize the project to suit their needs. Author Angie Taylor also shows the best ways to save and package template projects for web delivery or for submission to Adobe's Creative Cloud Market.